Chase took a taxi from his house to the airport. The taxi company charged a pick-up fee of $1.20 plus $4.75 per mile. The total fare was $48.70, not including the tip. Write and solve an equation which can be used to determine xx, the number of miles in the taxi ride.

On traditional maps, earth is represented in a flat plane, or by euclidean geometry. however, a globe is a more accurate model that comes from elliptical geometry.how does a globe represent the fact that there are no parallel lines in elliptical geometry? the equator is not parallel to any other latitudinal lines. the north and south poles are never connected by a geodesic. the geodesics connecting the north and south poles never intersect. the geodesics connecting the north and south poles intersect at both of the poles.